She was absent from Donald Trump’s seven-week secret trial in New York, and Ivanka could only bring herself to offer four words of public support for her father after his historic conviction Thursday for paying for a porno. star.
“I love you dad,” she wrote on her Instagram story, alongside a photo of her as a child with her father.
Even Tiffany managed to make it to the courthouse on Tuesday, joining Eric and Donald Jr. as closing arguments began. Eric was back in court when the verdict was read Thursday, while stalwart Don Jr., who filmed himself at the courthouse a day earlier plotting with his father to write mean tweets, had his keyboard fingers ready to go.
Where was the Trump clan while its patriarch sat in court?
In the hours following the verdict, Jr. had made 14 posts on X, seven Truth Social posts, one Instagram video and four Facebook posts in support of dad. “What bullshit,” he fumed at X as the verdict fell. “The Democrats have succeeded in their years-long attempt to turn America into a third world shithole. November 5 is our last chance to save him.
Melania, for her part, said nothing.
A post on Ivanka Trump’s Instagram following Donald Trump’s guilty verdict.
The absence of Ivanka and Melania from the trial would have “absolutely” bothered Trump, his former press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, speculated this week on CNN.
“That kind of thing would bother him,” she said. “If Mrs. Trump wasn’t at an event and it was really noticed, he would definitely bring it up with her. So I’m sure in that context it really bothers him.”
Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner have tried to distance themselves from the political storm surrounding Trump. After being snubbed by their New York high society friends for their work in the Trump White House, the couple moved to Florida and said they would not get involved in Trump’s 2024 re-election campaign .
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